Posted January 23, 2019 Hey everyone, I have been having trouble lately with my 2tb Toshiba drive that I got with my computer. Basically, when transferring to an external hard drive, through USB 3, the transfer speed fluctuates like crazy. It'll be up to 50mb/s and then sit idle at 0mb/s for like thirty seconds, then start again but staying below 10mb/s. When going into folders full of pictures on my main drive the loading times for thumbnails will be probably 10 seconds or more (I'll even have the green loading bar at the top of file explorer.) The drive idles just fine, but any time it has to do heavy lifting it tends to struggle. I've also been having slow downs when gaming lately when I know my graphics card can handle most games at pretty high settings. Is my hard drive dying? Is it because it's almost full (only 40gb left)? For reference: I've run a virus scan, no issues there. I update my graphics card drivers regularly. Windows always updates. Any help is appreciated. Thanks! ---PC Specs--- -Thermaltake Armor Revo Gene Chassis -Gigabyte Ga-Z87-HD3 | Motherboard -Intel Core i7-4770K Clocked @ 3.5 GHz | Desktop Processor -Powercolor AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB | Graphics Card -iBUYPOWER 16GB DDR3 | RAM -EVGA 600W 80+ Silver | Power Supply -Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM | Hard Drive -DVD/Blu-ray Disc Combo Drive -Microsoft Windows 10 Home -2 LED 120mm Fans- Red & Green -12-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader I bought my PC in 2014 - it's almost 5 years old now. Only thing that is newer is my power supply and graphics card. -Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 23, 2019 Run a hard drive diagnostics utility to check for sector errors and other potential problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 24, 2019 Author 2 hours ago, NinJake said: Run a hard drive diagnostics utility to check for sector errors and other potential problems. Any recommendations? Never had to do this before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 24, 2019 13 hours ago, SkullHQ said: Any recommendations? Never had to do this before. CrystalDiskInfo works well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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